Reel for wire-rod-rolling mills



. O. H. MORGAN. Reel for Wire-Rpd'RollingaMills.

No. 224,787. Patented Feb. 24,1880.

"- ERs. PHOTD-UTHOG UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MORGAN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

REEL FOR WlRE-ROD-ROLLING MILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,787,dated February24, 1880.

Application filed October 31, 1879.

said improved reel for wire-rod-rolling mills.

Fig. 2represents a section, (indicated bylines A B, Fig. 1,) looking inthe direct-ion of arrow 1., same figure. Fig. 3 represents a section online C D, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of arrow '2, same figure; andFig. 4 represents a section on line E, Fig. 1, looking in the directionof arrow 3, same figure, section taken as if reel were in a verticalposition.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to makeand use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, the part InarkedF represents my improved reel, which iscomposedof a base, F, secured to a driving-shaft, F which turns insuitable bearings a b in stand-pieces Cr G, convex flange H, secured tothe upper center face of the base-piece F, and coiling teeth or arms H,which are fastened in and project from the upper inclined face of baseF, said arms or teeth H being arranged in circular form, with theirouter ends slightly inclined toward the center 0 of the base F, as fullyindicatedin the drawings:

Reel F is propelled or rotated in the direc-' tion indicated by arrow 4,and this may be accomplished by means of beveled gears I and I,shaft J,and pulleys J J, or in any other convenient and desirable manner.

K K represent the last or finishing set of rolls in a wire-rod-rollin gmill, and which rolls may be supported in suitable standards andhousings.

L is a guide-pipe having a trumpet or enlarged mouth, L, which is fittedto receive the finished rod as it is delivered by the finishing-rollersK K, so that said finished wire rod will be conducted throughconductingtube L and its end guided so as to strike under convex flangeH of the reel, all as fully indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1, wherebythe finished rod will be carried around and coiled upon the arms H ofthe reel in avery secure and compact manner.

It will be observed that the convex flange H, incombination with thebase F, performs an important function, since the end of the rod, nomatter in what position the reel may be, will always strike in the spaced between the base F and the convex flange H. Consequently the end ofthe rod is not liable to escape the action of the reel.

It will be observed that reel F and its shaft are arranged in aninclined position, and that the motion of the reel is about an axis alsoinclined from a right angle to the motion of the finished rod as itpasses through guidingtube L, and which relative arrangement of parts,as before indicated, insures the end of the finished rod being caught bythe reel-arms, and that, too, without any undue twisting or wrenching ofthe parts or liability of accidents or imperfect coiling of the finishedwire rod. As the arms H are inclined toward the center of the reel, thecoil of wire rod is easily removed from said arms.

Having described my improved reel for wirerod-rollingmills, what I claimtherein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

1. The improved reel herein described, consisting of the base F, havingconvex flange H and arms H, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. The combination, with the finishing-rolls of a \vire-rod-rollingmill, of guiding-tube L, and improved reel, consisting of the base F,having convex flange H and arms H, as and for the purposes set forth.

CHAS. H. MORGAN.

Witnesses J OHN G. DEWEY, THoM. H. Donen.

